Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-24
Davis TO REAGAN.
The Sage Of Beauvoir Writes an Open
Letter to His Trusted Lieuten-
ant Of Old Days.
lie Reviews ST Length the Prohibition
Contest il Texas Settled on
the Fourth Dsy OF August.
Local Option Counties Voted
against the lEsasurs,

Special to me Gazette.
HOUSTON, TN, sept. 23.-Tle Post Of
tomorrow will c9ltsir the following
BEAuvO-E, Mss, sept. II. 1851.
J. FL. Reagan
Ny DEAR FRIEND-It WAS s sore dis
appointment when you chose by an open
letter to msse the public party 10 your
with ne, but ny affec-
ton for you forbade me replying in like
manner. Your right to view my letter
to Governor Lubbock IS not questioned,
but I did not and do not see Hhy criti-
Cism OF your opponents in the canvass
should have been addressed to me. My
silence has been misCCustruCted aud
UNsCRUPULOUs PARTISANs
have made end are making your letter a
text for detrsctlon which gathers volume
SIS it rolls through distant states. 7 have,
therefore, 81 last decided to reply in en-
open letter. It is not my purpose toh0ld
you responsible for Thet pertisans have
uttered, but not choosing 10 notice
THE SwASHBUCKLERs OF CAMP FOL
LOWERS,
il only remained for ne 70 destroy the
foundation Rad Iesva the superstructure
to fall. You express surprise anu sOr-
row because of the letter I had written
to our friend, Ex-Governor Lubbock, but
why YCu should feel surprised is
not perceived. sly position in that
letter is the same in which you left and
have always known me-. E., the strict
construction of governmental powers,
that these are derived from the consent
OF the governed and should he limited by
the necessities OF social existence.
WHENCE AROSE THE SORROW?
Certainly not because IS friend / re
sDOnded to Governor LubJ0ck's request
for my opinion on 8 political subject
which YVES not lOCsl, though then under
discussion ii Texas as g state question.
He, you AID we're closely associated ia
terms ard sacrifices and dan
gers TOR = common cause,
snd were csp5ured together, The reIs1iOns
suosisting between us Weje too generally
known for il to he supposed that you
could regret the mere fact OF my CORE
spGndenCe win Governor Lubbock, end
hence it Gas oeen assumed that your sJr-
row alOse Tor regarding it
AS An INTRUSION
on my part to express en- opinion on g
subject then the matter Of contention in
Texas. I certainly have no claim on
Texans, but freely acknowledge my in
debtednes5 10 them, ald having for many
yesrs felt 6 deep interest in their affairs.
might reasonably have supposed thst
had al equal right TO express an opinion
upon them IS inst accorded to
GEORGIA MICRO
who was imported by your party to Infu-
enCe the voters Of his color, and VINO it
was reported had been ct one or more
public meetings introduced by you TO the
! ladies and gentlemen OF Texas. This is
| to be viewed in connection with the alle-
cation that the white Democrats mad been
defeated by the MeXlc2ns and negroes
who voted against prohibition. Without
| entering into the question OF how the
vote stood, matter concerning which
you know more than l do, ] will
merely quote the following extract
! from the Waco Advance, the party organ
of the Prohibition party in Teas: "We
do not believe as Mr.. Reagan, that Mr..
Davis letter mas done prohibition any
harm; on the contrary, W. believe that il
will be worth 90 OU votes to prohibition
/ in Texas, and 100000 votes for prChiDi-
ton in the north, JEFF Davis belongs to
q past age,
He PLAYED HIS GAME
in life and lost, and for one, while we sre
Of the south and to the
manner born, We are glad ne lost
Slavery was wrong, so is the liquor traf-
fc. His iigat Tor the liquor tratli; vii
also be z failure" The difference OF Opin
ION IS to the effect Of my letter, and th'
remarks IS so my connection with slavery
and the whisky traffic is all of 9 piec,
WITH the attempts made to
DELUDE IGNORANT NEGROES,
| by representing that their freedom would
be endangered If the party with which
was identified should succeed. In tint
face of sucn evidence there would seen
to be something beside virtue
intelligence, piety fair dealLAi
and white Democracy in tn
p1 lhibl.iOn ranks. Your letter hs
been relied upon, and l grieYe 70 sly no
: quite fairly, to represent my having ad
: vocated, in the letter to Governor Lub
t book, the whisky traffic, though there wa
. nothing in my letter TO justify
SUCH MISREPRESENTATION,
as its whole sc0on having been to oojec
to theipendiDg amendment fOT prOhibitiO
2 against the TnsnufzCture CT any iutOXiCat
= ing liquor, an invasion of the right of
/ man to use his own IS it might seem t
/ him best, provided ne did not abuse tina
! right so as to inJure another. Upon tn
: basis Of my encouraging DRUM
enness, which my letter ha
emphstically denounced, you palr
IN glowing culors Eli the horrors Of thg
e vice, having no other foundation for you
:. picture, so far as it affected me- tnan ths
T l had objected to the prohibition amend
ment then pending before the people
Texas and which, if it would have snow
: that the Philippe YVES directed against
mere man Of straw, the objection TO th
= prohibition measure was entitled to
lenient statement st your hands, in 6
much as it appears from puOlisne
statement in the Houston Post OF Angus
8, that II Is but two years since
e YOU OPPOSED PROHIBITION,
- Including even in 1t the local option in =
90 gard to sale. In the paper referred t,
;, you are quoted as saying on the goth
- August, 1885, ~ do not agree with II
~ extreme men on either side of the
- questions. and my views are not likely
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